If you thought Penn struggled in its running game on Saturday against Villanova, take a look at the Yale-Cornell contest.
While the Quakers tallied 45 yards -- with 29 coming from quarterback Bryan Walker - the Big Red mustered just 39 on the ground as they fell 51-12 to the Bulldogs.
The Yale defensive line stuffed Cornell backs all day, including leading Cornell running back Luke Siwula. The senior was held to 43 net yards, after averaging under a 100 yards per game last season. His gains offset the negative yards from some of his teammates.
Not getting anywhere on the ground, the Big Red used their passing game more. But Yale kept to the ground and ended with 293 yards on the day. Mike McLeod contributed 151 of them despite sitting for most of the fourth quarter.
Cornell also tried to get fancy, pulling out a flea-flicker play and an onside kick attempt. Neither worked in the Big Red's favor.
Under the lights. The much-hyped first nighttime football game at Harvard Stadium drew a record crowd.
There were 18,898 in attendance - almost 8,000 more than the last Harvard-Brown game the Crimson hosted, in 2005.
The game time was originally changed from a Friday-night game because of the conflict with Yom Kippur.
Crimson athletic director Bob Scalise told the Harvard Crimson that he would consider night games in the future if the community gave positive feedback.
Another RB sidelined. Joe Sandberg was out for the Quakers, but the Bears suffered their own running back setback.
Brown's Dereck Knight sustained a foot injury and came out Saturday. He tried to return a few plays later, but couldn't carry on.
"He ran for 208 yards last week," head coach Phil Estes told the Brown Daily Herald. "We didn't think we were going to have to run, run, run the football, but it certainly makes a difference when you have your big back out of the game."
Speaking of injuries. Two Ivy quarterbacks were unable to finish out their respective games. Cornell's Nathan Ford was hit hard by Yale's Bobby Abare in the third quarter and was replaced by sophomore Ben Ganter, who threw a touchdown pass on the very next play. Harvard's Liam O'Hagan was taken down hard also in the third quarter after scrambling for a nine-yard gain. Backup Chris Pizzotti took over.
Neither player's status for this weekend is known.
